The UC Irvine Libraries support the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series by providing a bibliography of the works of each Fellow. The bibliographies are available in print at the Langson and Science Libraries and at each public event.

2001 - 2002 Series

Giorgio Agamben

UC Irvine Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow
A Selective Bibliography: The UC Irvine Libraries
April 24, 2002

Eddie Yeghiayan, Critical Theory & Philosophy Librarian
The UC Irvine Libraries

• Books
• Essays

Books

• L'uomo senza contenuto. Documenti letterari. Milano: Rizzoli, 1970.

  L'homme sans contenu. Saulxures: Circé, 1996.
  Translation into French by Carole Walter.

  The Man without Content. Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.
  Translation by Georgia Albert.
  UCI Main Lib BH201 A413 1999

• Stanze: la parola e il fantasma nella cultura occidentale.
  Saggi, 579. Turin: Einaudi, 1977.

  Stanze: parole et fantasme dans la culture occidentale.
  Serie "Enonciations".
  Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1981.
  Translation into French by Yves Hersant .
  UCI Main Lib CB245 A3314 1981

  Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture.
  Theory and History of Literature, 69.
  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
  Translation by Ronald L. Martinez.
  UCI Main Lib CB245 A3313 1993

  Estancias: la palabra y el fantasma en la cultura occidental.
  Valencia: Pre-Textos, 1995.
  Translation into Spanish by Tomás Segovia.

• Infanzia e storia: distruzione dell'esperienza e origine della storia.
  Nuovo politecnico, 105. Turin: Einaudi, 1978. New edition, 2001.

Infancy and History: The Destruction of Experience.
London & New York: Verso, 1993.
Translation by Liz Heron .
UCI Main Lib D16.8 A4813 1993

Enfance et histoire: destruction de l'expérience et origine de l'histoire. Critique de la politique. Paris: Payot, 2000.
Translation by Yves Hersant.

• La Fine del pensiero = La Fin de la pensée.
  Paris: Le Nouveau commerce, 1982.
  Translation by Gérard Macé.

• Il linguaggio e la morte: un seminario sul luogo della negatività.
  Turin: Einaudi, 1982.
  Based on a seminar held between winter 1979 and summer 1980.

  Language and Death: The Place of Negativity. Theory and History of Literature, 78. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
  Translation by Karen E. Pinkus and Michael Hardt.
  UCI Main Lib B828.25 A4213 1991

  La langage et la mort: un séminaire sur le lieu de la négativité. Détroits.
  Paris: Bourgois, 1991.
  Translation into French by Marilène Raiola.

• Idea della prosa. Impronte, 31. Milan: Feltrinelli, 1985.

  Idee der Prosa. Munich: Hanser, 1987.
  Translation into German by Dagmar Leopold and Clemens-Carl Härle.

  Idée de la prose.
  Collection "Detroits". Paris: Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1988.
  Translation into French by Gérard Macé.
  UCI Science Library Bar AC45 A3414 1988

  Idea of Prose. Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
  Translation by Michael Sullivan and Sam Whitsitt.
  UCI Science Library Bar AC45 A3413 1995

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• La comunità che viene. Saggi brevi. Turin: Einaudi, 1990.

La Communauté qui vient: théorie de la singularité quelconque.
Paris: Seuil, 1990.
Translation by Marlène Raiola.

The Coming Community. Theory Out of Bounds, 1.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Translation by Michael Hardt.
UCI Main Lib B105 C46 A4313 1993

A comunidade que vem. Lisbon: Presenca, 1993.
Portuguese translation by Antonio Guerreiro.

La comunidad que viene. Valencia: Pre-Textos, 1996.
Spanish translation by Jose L. Villacanas and Claudio La Rocca.

• Homo sacer. 1. Il potere sovrano e la nuda vita. Turin: Einaudi, 1995.

  Homo sacer. I, Le pouvoir souverain et la vie nue.
  L'Ordre philosophique. Paris: Seuil, 1997.
  Translation by Marilène Raiola.

  Homo Sacer: el poder soberano y la nuda vida I.
  Ensayo, 377. Valencia: Pre-Textos, 1998.
  Spanish translation and notes by Antonio Gimeno Cuspinera.

  Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998.
  Translation by Daniel Heller- UCI Main Lib JC571 A16813 1998

• Moyens sans fins: notes sur la politique. Paris: Payot et Rivages, 1995.
  Recueil de textes en français ou traduit de l'italien extrait de diverses revues et publications, 1990-1993.

Mezzi senza fine: note sulla politica.
Temi, 62. Turin: Borlinghieri, 1996.

Medios sin fin: notas sobre la politica. Valencia: Pre-Textos, 2001.
Spanish translation by Antonio Gimeno Cuspinera.

• Bartleby ou La création. Saulxures: Circé, 1995.

• Categorie italiane: studi di poetica.
  Saggi. Venice: Marsilio, 1996.

The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics.
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Translation by Daniel Heller-Roazen.
UCI Main Lib PQ4093 A3513 1999

• Quel che resta di Auschwitz: l'archivio e il testimone: homo sacer III.
  Turin: Boringhieri, 1998.

  Ce qui reste d'Auschwitz: l'archive et le temoin: Homo Sacer III.
  Paris: Payot & Rivages, 1999.
  Translation by Pierre Alferi.

Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive.
New York: Zone Books, 1999.
Translation by Daniel Heller-Roazen.
UCI Main Lib D804.195 A53 1999

• Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy.
  Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.
  Translation by Daniel Heller-Roazen.

  Contents:

  1. The Thing Itself
  2. The Idea of Language
  3. Language and History: Linguistic and Historical Categories in Benjamin's Thought
  4. Philosophy and Linguistics
  5. Kommerell, or On Gesture
  6. Aby Warburg and the Nameless Science
  7. Tradition of the Immemorial
  8. *Se: Hegel's Absolute and Heidegger's Ereignis
  9. Walter Benjamin and the Demonic: Happiness and Historical Redemption
  10. The Messiah and the Sovereign: The Problem of Law in Walter Benjamin
  11. On Potentiality
  12. The Passion of Facticity
  13. Pardes: The Writing of Potentiality
  14. Absolute Immanence
  15. Bartleby, or On Contingency

  UCI Main Lib BH201 A395 1999

• Il tempo che resta: un commento alla Lettera ai Romani. Saggi. Storia, filosofia e scienze sociali. Turin: Boringhieri, 2000.

Le temps qui reste: un commentaire de l'Epitre aux Romains. Paris: Rivages, 2000.
Translation into French by Judith Revel.

Essays

• "Il principe e il ranocchio. Il problema del metodo in Adorno e in Benjamin."
  Aut Aut (May-August 1978), 165-166:105-117.
  UCI Science Library Bar AP 37 A9

• "La parola e il sapere."
  Aut Aut (September-December 1980), 179-180:155-166.
  UCI Science Library Bar AP 37 A9

• "Un importante ritrovamento di manoscritti di Walter Benjamin."
  Aut Aut (May-August 1982), 189-190:4-6.
  Issue is entitled "Paesaggi Benjaminiani."
  UCI Science Library Bar AP 37 A9

• "Introduzione a Friedrich Heinle."
  Aut Aut (May-August 1982), 189-190:26-29.
  Followed by on pp. 30-41 by poetry by Friedrich Heinle, some of which is
  translated by Giorgio Agamben.
  UCI Science Library Bar AP 37 A9

• "*Se. L'Assoluto e l' 'Ereignis'."
  Aut Aut (January-April 1982), 187-188:39-58.
  UCI Science Library Bar AP 37 A9

• "L'idea del linguaggio."
  Aut Aut (May-June 1984), 201:67-74.
  UCI Science Library Bar AP 37 A9

• "The Idea of Language: Some Difficulties in Speaking about Language."
  Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (1984), 10(1):141-149.
  This issue is entitled "Hannah Arendt Memorial Symposium."
  UCI Main Lib B1 G7

• "Das Ende des Gedankens."
  Akzente (June 1985), 32(3):262-264.
  Translated by Dagmar Leufold.
  UCI Science Library Bar PT 1141 A2 A6

• "An Idea of Glory."
  Flash Art (October-November 1985), 124:80-81.
  UCI Main Lib N1 A1 F53

• "The Eternal Return and the Paradox of Passion."
  Stanford Italian Review (1986), 6(1-2):9-17.
  

"Nietzsche in Italy" Conference, Stanford University, April 18-19, 1986.
UCI Main Lib PQ4001 S782
Reprinted in Thomas Harrison, ed., Nietzsche in Italy, pp. 9-17. Saratoga, Calif.: Anma Libri, 1988.

• "Langue et histoire: Catégories historiques et catégories linguistiques dans la
  pensée de Benjamin." In Heinz Wismann, ed., Walter Benjamin et Paris, pp. 793-807.
  Colloque international 27-29 juin 1983. Passages. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1986.
  Translated by Yves Hersant.
  UCI Langson Library PQ 4001 S782

• "Quatro glosse a Kafka."
  Rivista di Estetica (1986), 26(22):37-44.
  UCI Main Lib BH 4 R5

• "Über die Schwerkraft."
  Akzente (February 1986), 33(1):79-81.
  Translated by Burkhart Kroeber.
  UCI Science Library Bar PT 1141 A2 A6

• "Bataille e Benjamin."
  Lettera Internazionale [Rome] (January-March 1987), 11:18-19.

• "Los fantasmas de la melancolia."
  Pasajes [Pamplona, Spain] (1987), 8:5-22.

• "Idée de la cesure et autres proses."
  Po&sie (1987), 40(1):79-85.
  Translated by Gérard Macé.
  UCI Main Lib PN 1010 P497

• "The Thing Itself."
  Sub-Stance (1987), 16(2) [53]:18-28.
  Translated by Juliana Schiesari.
  Issue is entitled "Contemporary Italian Thought."
  UCI Main Lib PN 2 S9

• "Language and History in Benjamin."
  Differentia: Review of Italian Thought
  (Spring 1988), 2:169-183.
  Translated by Karen Pinkus.

• "Il silenzio delle parole."
  In Ingeborg Bachmann's In cerca di frasi vere,
  pp. v-xv. Bari: Laterza, 1989

• "'Pardes': l'écriture de la puissance."
  Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger
  (April-June 1990), 180(2) [115]:131-145.
  Translated by Jacqueline Laporte.
  Issue is on "Derrida."
  UCI Main Lib B 2 R488

• "La geste et la danse."
  Revue d'Esthétique (1992), 22:9-12.
  Issue is entitled "& la danse."
  Translated by Daniel Loayza and Dominique Noguez.
  UCI Main Lib BH 2 R48

• "A propos de Jean-Luc Godard."
  Le Monde (October 6, 1995):11.
  UCI Main Lib Curr Per Rm Microfilm

• "We Refugees."
  Symposium (Summer 1995), 49(2):114-119.
  Issue is entitled "Transnational Italian Studies Today."
  Translated by Michael Rocke.
  UCI Main Lib PB 1 S9

• "The Passion of Facticity: Heidegger and the Problem of Love."
  In Reginald Lilly, ed., The Ancients and the Moderns, pp. 211-229. Studies in Continental Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
  Papers originally delivered at the New School for Social Research at the semi-annual Symposia in honor of Hannah Arendt.
  UCI Main Lib JA81 A57 1996

• "L'immaneza assoluta."
  Aut Aut (November-December 1996), 276:39-57.
  UCI Science Library Bar AP 37 A9

• "Introduzione." In Emmanuel Levinas'
  Alcune riflessioni sulla filosofia dell'hitlerismo, pp. 7-17.
  Translated by Andrea Cavalletti and Stefano Chiodi. Macerata: Quodlibet, 1996.

• "The Camp as the Nomos of the Modern."
  In Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber, eds.,
  Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination.
  Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997.
  Proceedings of an international workshop held during the summer of 1995 in Amsterdam.
  UCI Main Lib HM281 V4923 1997

• "Repetition and Stoppage: Guy Debord's Technique of Montage = Wiederholung und Stillstellung: zur Kompositionstechnik der Filme Guy Debords." In Jean-François Chevrier, ed., Documenta X: Documents, Vol. 2, pp. 68-75. Ostfildern: Cantz, 1997.
  English translation by Brian Holmes, German translation by Jürgen Blasius.
  UCI Main Lib NX456 D635 1996 v.2

• "Vocation and Voice."
  Qui Parle: Literature, Philosophy, Visual Arts, History
  (Spring-Summer 1997), 10(2):89-100.
  Translated by Jeff Fort.
  Issue is entitled "Heidegger & Co."
  UCI Main Lib PN1 Q5

• "La guerra e il dominio." Aut Aut
  (September-December 1999), 293-294:22-23.
  UCI Science Library Bar AP 37 A9